How to beat the Tea Party and win on clean energy:

Photo: Ramkumar Rajendran The politics of the radical right have locked the U.S. into energy-policy stalemate, at least through the middle of this decade. With the climate clock running out, is this stalemate also checkmate for the planet? Despite the ongoing tragedy in D.C., the clean energy movement has real solutions that can both revitalize the economy and stop the destruction of global climate stability. What clean energy does not have enough of -- and what the Tea Party does have -- are committed political candidates and its own power base in a committed business community. National Democrats, President Obama included, talk a good game on clean energy. But beyond a handful of legislators who really get the idea (and this may yet include the president), the commitment is shallow. With Republicans scared to death to even acknowledge the science, there is no competitive...